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TIL Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon turned down shoe deals from big brands, chooses 34.99 Spalding shoes from Payless “How can a poor working mother with three boys buy Nikes or Reeboks that cost $120?…She can’t. So kids steal these shoes from stores and from other kids. Sometimes they kill for them.”

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mMAR TIL that a grandpa who won a romp with 2 hookers in a radio contest dies after choking on his food while hurrying to the threesome
dk7d TIL about a man who has both anterograde and retrograde amnesia, meaning he cannot form new memories, nor can he recall old ones. Clive Wearing can only ever remember the past few moments of his life, though he still feels love for his wife and can still play music
1a117 TIL that fish skin can be grafted onto humans and is used as an "alternative biological wound dressing". Possible Medical NSFW
6QNY TIL a man blew his head off in the middle of the Harvard campus, as an “as an experiment in nihilism”, as described in his 1900-pg manifesto.
DQNBv TIL Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first practical telephone, was partly driven to experiment with hearing devices because both his mother and his wife were deaf.